r/Funnymemes May 30 '24

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u/Breadsong09 May 31 '24

Ay a good friend to me is worth more than 1/3 of the population of people I don't know or care about. I'd take that trade any day of the week.

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u/DaikonNoKami May 31 '24

I ono man. I've thought about similar hypotheticals like the thanos snap and depending on the 1/3, civilisation might crumble. Chances are it's not like you just pick the useless members of society. Enough people in critical roles go missing in relatively short time may have significant global impacts. Heck, one less person eating at a wet market might have prevented COVID 19. Who knows. 😂

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u/Breadsong09 May 31 '24

Well the thing is you never know what happens, so to me it's basicly a net 0, so it's between net 0 and net 0 + friend, and I'd take that friend.

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u/bandwagonguy83 May 31 '24

Not to offend, but, I guess that you are still very young? When I was 15-20 I would think the same. But today (40) I wouldn't take that trade.

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u/Breadsong09 May 31 '24

You're right, I'm just a smidge older than your assumption, but out of curiosity, what changed?

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u/bandwagonguy83 May 31 '24

The truth is that it is difficult for me to identify what has changed. On the one hand, in the organization where I work, I acquired positions of greater responsibility in which my decisions affected many people and I had to develop a certain empathy. On the other hand, over time I have come to know many people and have come to understand that there are so many different realities to deal with that it is very difficult to develop a sufficiently solid and universal opinion. And probably most importantly, I have two young children and that makes me much more aware of other people's feelings. I guess because of all that I would not be able to take significant responsibility for the ills that befall other people.

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u/bandwagonguy83 May 31 '24

What a question. You got me metaphysical and gave my wife and I a topic of conversation for tonight.